So here it is: Fanboys: the nay sayers can now shut up Haters: ya the price went down but its a crap player
People, its life, you get what you pay for. If you want in sooner then later for cheap, you get a cheap player - but its a player and it does work. Its a great start and maybe we'll see more interesting news in the next few months :)
It's not even a crap player. The complaints seem to focus on a lack of internal encoding for certain optional audio formats (who gives a crap? Seriously, if you want surround sound, you should be using a receiver), and lack of 2.0 support (a problem, but you get the impression Blu-ray's "Profile 2.0" was designed as a half-witted reading of HD DVD's online capabilities, online is certainly less important to Blu-ray than it was to HD DVD.)
It's a low cost BD player. If you don't have a player, but you have an HDTV, and you think Blu-ray has a future, go out and get it.
I personally wouldn't bother with this player; I'd still recommend a PS3 as a Blu-Ray player but if you're looking for a cheap way in, this player is good. At the end of the day, either of the 2 formats during the format war would be in the exact same situation as Blu-Ray is in now except HD-DVD would be a bit cheaper for the lowest end player. To be totally honest, yes Blu went 1.0, 1.1 and then 2.0 but even 1.0 will play every movie and most people don't even look at any bonus features/content or use any of the online abilities; I'm not one of those most people so I spent more to get the extra features. I respect your stance against Blu but you really haven't given any good reasons for your opinion that Blu will fail. For me, I'd support the wining format after the format war regardless of who won because I want my HD movies on optical media. Blu 2.0 actually is equal or better technically in every aspect than HD-DVD even if they got there in a bad way. So I'm kind of glad that the format with the larger capacity and scratch proof coating won even though I wouldn't have stood behind either format while the war was on.
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So here it is:
Fanboys: the nay sayers can now shut up
Haters: ya the price went down but its a crap player
People, its life, you get what you pay for. If you want in sooner then later for cheap, you get a cheap player - but its a player and it does work.
Its a great start and maybe we'll see more interesting news in the next few months :)
It's not even a crap player. The complaints seem to focus on a lack of internal encoding for certain optional audio formats (who gives a crap? Seriously, if you want surround sound, you should be using a receiver), and lack of 2.0 support (a problem, but you get the impression Blu-ray's "Profile 2.0" was designed as a half-witted reading of HD DVD's online capabilities, online is certainly less important to Blu-ray than it was to HD DVD.)
It's a low cost BD player. If you don't have a player, but you have an HDTV, and you think Blu-ray has a future, go out and get it.
I personally wouldn't bother with this player; I'd still recommend a PS3 as a Blu-Ray player but if you're looking for a cheap way in, this player is good.
At the end of the day, either of the 2 formats during the format war would be in the exact same situation as Blu-Ray is in now except HD-DVD would be a bit cheaper for the lowest end player.
To be totally honest, yes Blu went 1.0, 1.1 and then 2.0 but even 1.0 will play every movie and most people don't even look at any bonus features/content or use any of the online abilities; I'm not one of those most people so I spent more to get the extra features.
I respect your stance against Blu but you really haven't given any good reasons for your opinion that Blu will fail. For me, I'd support the wining format after the format war regardless of who won because I want my HD movies on optical media. Blu 2.0 actually is equal or better technically in every aspect than HD-DVD even if they got there in a bad way. So I'm kind of glad that the format with the larger capacity and scratch proof coating won even though I wouldn't have stood behind either format while the war was on.